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Addressing Tsz-hia, the Master said, "Let your scholarship be that of
gentlemen, and not like that of common men."
When Tsz-yu became governor of Wu-shing, the Master said to him, "Do you
find good men about you?" The reply was, "There is Tan-t'ai Mieh-ming,
who when walking eschews by-paths, and who, unless there be some public
function, never approaches my private residence."
"Mang Chi-fan," said the Master, "is no sounder of his own praises.
During a stampede he was in the rear, and as they were about to enter
the city gate he whipped up his horses, and said, 'Twas not my daring
made me lag behind. My horses would not go.'"
_Obiter dicta_ of the Master:--
"Whoever has not the glib utterance of the priest T'o, as well as the
handsomeness of Prince Chau of Sung, will find it hard to keep out of
harm's way in the present age.
"Who can go out but by that door? Why walks no one by these guiding
principles?
"Where plain naturalness is more in evidence than polish, we have--the
man from the country. Where polish is more in evidence than naturalness,
we have--the town scribe. It is when naturalness and polish are equally
evident that we have the ideal man.
"The life of a man is--his rectitude. Life without it--such may you have
the good fortune to avoid!
"They who know it are not as those who love it, nor they who love it as
those who rejoice in it--that is, have the fruition of their love for
it.
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